Master’s Degree Course

This program trains specialists in the valorization and sustainable management of mountain territories. Through a systemic and multidisciplinary vision, you will acquire the tools to:

• Promote development: create products and services of economic and social value, starting from natural, agro-forestry resources and mountain biodiversity.
• Address global challenges: respond to climate change and depopulation through new development models based on bioeconomy and circular economy.
• Integrate expertise: combine technical-scientific knowledge with economic, legal, and communication skills to define the uniqueness of the mountain context.
• Manage innovation: use digital technologies and territorial marketing strategies to connect the local dimension with the global scale.

The MOUNTAINSIDE Master’s Degree offers a glocal educational experience that goes beyond traditional teaching boundaries through:

• Learning by doing: a practice-based method featuring laboratories, summer and winter schools, design challenges, and real-world problem-solving.
• Open-air classroom: activities take place entirely at the UNIMONT Campus of the Università degli Studi di Milano in Edolo, allowing for daily immersion in the Alpine environment.
• Innovation ecosystem: you will study in a hub connected to key regional and international stakeholders, fostering networking and direct contact with the professional world.
• International outlook: taught entirely in English, the course promotes a constant dialogue between local specificities and the international framework.

Graduates of the Master’s Degree MOUNTAINSIDE are specialists in the valorization and sustainable development of mountain areas, capable of operating in complex contexts through innovative technological and scientific approaches.

Career opportunities include coordination roles and high responsibility in strategic sectors for sustainable development, environmental protection and valorization of mountain areas, in the fields of research, innovation, development, planning and management of complex environmental and agro-forestry systems.

Graduates will be able to undertake freelance and consultancy activities, entrepreneurial activities, or work as employees in private or public, national or international companies at:

• Technical-professional firms and forestry and environmental services and consultancy companies.
• Planning companies for territorial valorization and development.
• Forestry consortia and companies.
• Local action groups – GAL.
• Consortia for the promotion of the territory and sustainable and environmental tourism.
• Agro-forestry companies.
• Consortia of agro-forestry producers.
• Trade associations.
• Parks and protected areas.
• Municipalities, consortia of municipalities, provinces, regions, ministries.
• Development agencies.
• Foundations and NGOs.
• Training and dissemination institutions and companies.
• Forestry and environmental research and development bodies.

Master’s degree graduates can work as freelancers as Doctors of Agronomy and Forestry, after passing the state exam and registering in the Register. They can access competitions for the recruitment of officers of the former State Forestry Corps and other Environmental Police Forces and for research doctorates in Italy (after passing the relevant competitions) or abroad (by passing specific selection procedures), or for a second-level master’s degree.

• Bachelor’s degree in classes L-25 (Agricultural and Forestry Sciences and Technologies) or L-26 (Agro-Food Sciences and Technologies) or L-32 (Environmental and Natural Sciences and Technologies). If in possession of a different university degree, it is necessary to have acquired at least 45 credits (ECTS) in the scientific-disciplinary sectors indicated in the Programme description (Manifesto).
• B2 level knowledge of the English language demonstrated through a language certificate among those accepted by the University or by taking a specific admission interview.

PROGRAMME DESCRIPTION (MANIFESTO)

ADMISSION NOTICE

MASTER’S DEGREE PRESENTATION

INFORMATION ABOUT ACCOMODATION

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Via Alessandro Morino 8 – 25048 Edolo (BS) – italy
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